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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:29:12 -0600
From: Scott Petersen <scottpetersen@softhome.net>
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Subject: Deleting Functions
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Folks,

I am using PGSQL do do all of my schema changes, but have run into a 
problem.  I need to be able to DROP all of the USER FUNCTIONS that are 
defined in a schema.  The problem is that I do not know the names of all 
of the functions and parameters.  I know that I could use '\df' and then 
use perl or some other scripting language to parse this, but I need to 
be able to perform this action on multiple platforms (without rewriting 
the process for each platform). 

I have written a script that incorporates '\df' and appropriate parsing 
to perform this action for LINUX and it works fine/lasts a long time.  I 
need to make this more transparent so it will run on all platforms (in 
particular windows).

I know that in the past (version 7) there was a way to drop the 
functions by directly accessing some of the system tables.  The 
question/problem is that we have updated to version 8.1 and need the 
same functionality.


Any help or directions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Scott.